Acting

Douglas Wood

Born October 30, 1880 · New York City, New York, USA

Died January 13, 1966 · aged 85

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Douglas Wood (October 31, 1880 – January 13, 1966) was an American actor of stage and screen during the first six decades of the 20th century. Born on Halloween 1880 (October 31), his mother, Ida Jeffreys, was a stage actress. During the course of his career, Wood would appear in dozens of Broadway productions, and well over 100 films. Towards the end of his …

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Waterloo Bridge

Waterloo Bridge · 1940

Waterloo Bridge

MovieDramaRomance

On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.

Sergeant York

Sergeant York · 1941

Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.

Dragonwyck

Dragonwyck · 1946

MovieDramaRomance

A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.

Dracula's Daughter

Dracula's Daughter · 1936

Dracula's Daughter

A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.

Buck Privates

Buck Privates · 1941

MovieComedyMusic

Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.

In the Navy

In the Navy · 1941

MovieComedyMusic

Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter, discovers his identity and follows him in the hopes of photographing him and revealing his identity to the world. Aboard the Alabama, Tommy meets up with Smoky and Pomeroy, who help hide him from Dorothy, who hatches numerous schemes in an attempt to photograph Tommy/Russ being a sailor.

Honky Tonk

Honky Tonk · 1941

MovieWesternDrama

Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.

Special Agent

Special Agent · 1935

MovieDramaCrime

A federal tax agent goes undercover as a reporter and, working with a mobster's pretty bookkeeper, infiltrates a crime ring to catch the racketeer. When she agrees to testify, an informant exposes them and she's kidnapped.

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Waterloo Bridge

Waterloo Bridge · 1940

Waterloo Bridge

MovieDramaRomance

On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.

Vicar at Estate Dance (uncredited)

Sergeant York

Sergeant York · 1941

Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.

Major Hylan (uncredited)

Dragonwyck

Dragonwyck · 1946

MovieDramaRomance

A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.

Mayor Curtis (uncredited)

Dracula's Daughter

Dracula's Daughter · 1936

Dracula's Daughter

A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.

Dr. Townsend (uncredited)

Buck Privates

Buck Privates · 1941

MovieComedyMusic

Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.

Randolph Parker II (uncredited)

In the Navy

In the Navy · 1941

MovieComedyMusic

Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter, discovers his identity and follows him in the hopes of photographing him and revealing his identity to the world. Aboard the Alabama, Tommy meets up with Smoky and Pomeroy, who help hide him from Dorothy, who hatches numerous schemes in an attempt to photograph Tommy/Russ being a sailor.

Admiral (uncredited)

Honky Tonk

Honky Tonk · 1941

MovieWesternDrama

Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.

Governor Wilson

Special Agent

Special Agent · 1935

MovieDramaCrime

A federal tax agent goes undercover as a reporter and, working with a mobster's pretty bookkeeper, infiltrates a crime ring to catch the racketeer. When she agrees to testify, an informant exposes them and she's kidnapped.

Federal Judge (uncredited)

Phantom Lady

Phantom Lady · 1944

MovieMysteryThriller

A devoted secretary embarks on a dangerous mission to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his wife.

Show Backer (uncredited)

The Prisoner of Shark Island

The Prisoner of Shark Island · 1936

The Prisoner of Shark Island

MovieDramaHistory

After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth — responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln — Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.

General Ewing

Juarez

MovieDramaHistory

The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.

Mr. Hartman (uncredited)

Boom Town

Boom Town · 1940

MovieAdventureDrama

Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.

Oil Man at New York Meeting (uncredited)

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Here Comes Mr. Jordan · 1941

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

MovieComedyFantasy

Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?

Board Member (uncredited)

The More the Merrier

The More the Merrier · 1943

The More the Merrier

MovieComedyRomance

It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.

Senator in Taxi (uncredited)

Love Crazy

Love Crazy · 1941

MovieComedyRomance

Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.

Sanity Hearing Doctor (uncredited)

Tomorrow Is Forever

Tomorrow Is Forever · 1946

Tomorrow Is Forever

MovieDramaRomance

In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.

Charles Hamilton

Two in a Crowd

Two in a Crowd · 1936

MovieRomanceComedy

When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that individually grabs each half must come to terms. Actress Julia Wayne needs the whole $1,000, and so does sportsman Larry Stevens. Since compromise will serve neither of their needs, they are stalemated - until complications arise.

Banker Ralston

Two Against the World

Two Against the World · 1936

Two Against the World

MovieCrimeDrama

Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to air a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.

Malcolm Sims

This Is My Affair

This Is My Affair · 1937

This Is My Affair

MovieRomanceCrime

President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Henry Maxwell

Crazy House

Crazy House · 1943

MovieMusicComedy

Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.

Studio Bidder

I Am the Law

I Am the Law · 1938

MovieCrimeDrama

With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.

District Attorney Bert Beery

Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras · 1943

The first of a series of six two-reel "Musical Parade" shorts produced in Technicolor for the Paramount 1943-44 production season. The series would continue into 1948, and then were reissued in the early 50's. Songs included "All the Way" and "At the Mardi Gras."

Harrison Piske

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet · 1940

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.

Speidler

Bottoms Up

Bottoms Up · 1934

MovieComedyDrama

Three smart film-flammers help a homeless little girl to love and happiness by making monkeys out of Hollywood's big movie moguls. A love story to make life worth living, bristling with roaring laughter and rhythmic with singable, lovable song hits. Made by the producers of "Sunny Side Up" — and surpassing it in everything.

John Baldwin